Conservative Observation (Commentary)

Remember the old Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In show on TV? It was a big hit when I was in college - we used to gather in the dorm lounge to watch it - 20 or 30 college guys all having a good laugh at the same time.

And a part of every show was the "flying-fickle-finger-of-fate-award" - an animated statue of a hand with a revolving middle-finger - awarded to someone in the news for some hypocritical or senseless act of stupidity. To be honest, I hadn't thought much about it until I saw this little clip from a Daily Kos post about the recently deceased William F. Buckley Jr. You might get a kick out of it.

And what modern political award can come close to the glory of the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate? The recently departed conservative icon, William F. Buckley, won the coveted "rigid digit" for his impressively brief distillation of all conservative philosophy: "Never clarify tomorrow, what you can obscure today."